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 expedition landed in July, 1584. At the north end of this island, I've seen the spot where they say the original village of the Indians stood—nine houses built of cedar and fortified with stakes.

"In 1585, the next year, another expedition came out, and the white men were well treated by the savages. These Englishmen brought with them a painter named John White, who carried back to Queen Elizabeth water-color pictures he made of the natives. One funny thing he said in his account was that the savages built platforms in their cornfields and made a squaw sit on a chair up there and keep up a terrible squawking and howling to scare off the beasts and birds from the crops—human scarecrows and pretty lively ones, I'll say.

"Now the last expedition sent out is supposed to have been cleaned out completely by the Indians. The word Croatan carved on the bark of a tree was the only mark left by them that could be found. By the way, before this, the wife of a man who rejoiced in the cheerful name of Ananias Dare, kin to our friend Buffalo, I dare say, gave birth to a daughter named